They Just Don't Think Like Us

We are aware, because ministers and defenders of the Righteous State have proclaimed it, that the influence of Hamas bestrides the world like the tentacles of a malignant international octopus; and the chief executive of Oxfam GB has duly confirmed her organisation's own part in the conspiracy with the claim that Britain's position regarding the assault on Gaza is, of all things, intellectually and morally incoherent. In fact, of course, Britain is the most intellectually and morally coherent country in the world, as may be seen from the fact that its three main political parties exist in lock-step agreement on virtually every matter of policy and differ only as to the methods by which their common aims might most gloriously be achieved. Nevertheless, the chief executive of Oxfam GB seems to think some sort of doublethink may be at work in the British practice of helping to arm the Righteous State while simultaneously sending humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Untermenschen, even though - strictly in accordance with the dictates of moral and intellectual coherence - the armaments are doubtless contributing significantly to the aid not getting through.